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SummaryThis is by far the best motherboard I have ever owned (my seventeenth). I LOVE the UEFI interface and the one-button overclocking function is to die for. I popped a 3570K in here and within seconds, I am at 4.2GHz with absolutely no mucking about with voltage and RAM timings, etc.

I have owned boards by every imaginable manufacturer. This board outdoes them all.

SummaryGreat motherboard for the price. Got it in a bundle with an i5 3570K, and overclocked to 4 GHz without problem. Could easily push further but that was a good number for me (Hyper 212 Plus cooler)

Prosa solid board , documentation is great, the board is well labelled

Consthe 8 pin ATX socket for the 12VDC is waaaay up by the overclock Genie. My 600W PSU didn't reach, so i had to mod the cables/connectors

SummaryOC is easy, setup was easy, although the NIC card didn't install with Window7, i had to use the DVD (which took a while to load) and grab the Intel NIC Drivers. That took a while to figure out, but this board is worth the 159 i paid.

SummaryThis was the only board that looked decent enough for a blue & black theme (this & the g45). The asus boards thou more feature packed, just had a weak theme over all. Aesthetics is a major deciding factor for some individuals

ConsThe manual is too short and light on specs and technical details. It will get most people started though.

SummaryBuild: Amazing, everything is solid in place, solder points are clean and regular. The board has great caps and voltage is very stable even at high overclocks. I believe this board will either make your overclock work and stable or live at stock speeds for a very very long time.Features: Great set of features for overclockers and regular users alike, I especially like the LED boot up indicator for troubleshooting overclocks, the LEDs for power phases are very useful too and the voltage meter sockets were very useful to me.Bios: Very easy to use with the mouse, will not blind you after prolonged use as it uses colors that are easy on the eyes! The options are well organised and browsing through the menus is easy and quick.CON: The manual comes in many different languages meaning they had to cut on technical specs that I would expect to see in a manual. I count this as a con because as a board so well suited for overclockers you'd expect the manual to go beyond the basic setup steps of how to snap RAM in place. You'll have to download the full version online and even it is lacking on the technical end.Comes with the MSI brand name, including their amazing support.

SummaryBought this with the intent of doing HDMI capture and Gaming. Has no issue with either. Disappointing that half of the SATA ports are SATA 2 but glad to see the PCI slots were dropped completely from this board.

For Firewire users you will need to purchase a Firewire bracket (does not come with one).

Pros-Lots of features at a great price-OC Genie II-Multiple PCIE slots for multi-gpu configurations-Nice colour scheme

Cons-Documentation and details on specifications are lacking-Not enough USB 3.0 ports and too many that are 2.0-Rebate processing is a long wait

SummaryThis was an awesome buy at $125 during Boxing Day and after a $30 rebate, which I only received this week.

After determining what specs were important to me(Z77 chipset, high quality and lots of power phases, second PCIE slot running at X8, and not X4, with two GPUs), there were a few that met these requirements from MSI, ASUS, GIGABYTE, ASROCK. The determining factor was the price at the time, as well as the nice colour scheme for the components.

It took extensive reading of reviews to get more detailed information on the specs, as the information on their website is rather sparse and not detailed enough for someone making their choice based on particular specification requirements.

Given the stark performance difference between USB 3.0 and 2.0, it would have been nice to have more of the former than the latter.

The OC Genie II is a quick and easy way for increased performance for those not interested in the subtleties of OCing an Ivy Bridge processor.

SummaryGood Mobo, sturdy and seems well build, would like it if more boards would put at least one of the old style pci slots, as this one only has the newer pci-e, but a lot of us have older cards that are still good like the older version of the asus xonar st sound card

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